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Voltaire by Nicolas de Largillière
An oil on canvas portrait of the French author and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778). Painted by Nicolas de Largillière between 1718 and 1724. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
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Renaissance Humanism
Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human. Its origins went back to 14th-century Italy and such authors...
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Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was an English mathematician and physicist widely regarded as the single most important figure in the Scientific Revolution for his three laws of motion and universal law of gravity. Newton's laws became a fundamental...
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Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) was the most celebrated anatomist in Europe during the 16th century and a key figure of the Scientific Revolution. Vesalius' great work was his On the Fabric of the Human Body, which contains over 250 remarkable...
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An Allegory of the Revolution
Allégorie révolutionnaire ("Allegory of the revolution") by Nicolas Henri Jeaurat de Bertry, 1794. It was made in honor of Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), whose portrait is seen at the top of the painting. Rousseau...
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Encyclopedie Frontispiece
The frontispiece of the Encyclopedia, a massive multi-volume work first published in 1751 and chiefly edited by Diderot (1713-1784). The figure in the centre is Truth whose light radiates forth and disperses the clouds of ignorance. Engraved...
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The Rape of the Sabine Women
The Rape of the Sabine Women, painting by Nicolas Poussin, 1637-1638 CE.
Louvre, Paris
Photo credit: Francisco Anzola
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Socrates Visiting Aspasia
Socrates visiting Aspasia, painting by Nicolas André Monsiaux, 1801.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
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Rio, Portuguese Brazil
An 1816 painting of Rio de Janeiro. Rio was made sole capital of Portuguese Brazil in 1763. Painted by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay. (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio)
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Committee of Public Safety Emblem, 1794
Committee of Public Safety emblem, 1794. Designed by Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois.